Facts.

No, they're not lies, or falsehoods... they're "Alternative Facts".

**** you Conway and Spicer. They're *lies*. You're both liars.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... s-briefing

++ungood yo. ++ungood.

Used to be when my family or friends would repeat something they read I'd reply innocently that if it was on the internet it had to be true.

I've stopped even joking about that. Everything from every source is "fake news" these days. If it should be "so-and-so killed on I-55 during rush hour", it's presented as "so-and-so killed on I-55 during rush hour, residents blame local politician for killing traffic bill" just so they can get their agenda communicated. You don't hear a fact that doesn't include a twist in whatever direction the media and/or some demagogue espouses, and couple that with so few "facts" really being facts.

Not long ago, "Trust no one" sounded a bit like paranoia. Now ...

There's a vast, vast difference between unintentional bias and outright lying.

The former is far more dangerous in my opinion. It's more widespread, you can get out of being called a liar, and it's somehow become acceptable. The latter can be easily shown for what it is.

Lol! "All" we have is photos, and video footage from every conceivable angle, and transportation data, all of which has been the basis for numbers estimates every other time. But *this* time, it's just smoke and mirrors, circumstantial, and nothing definitive. Could be half a million, could be a million and half. Who can say!? I mean, clearly, they're all liars. Good lord, man.

I actually read those arguments.. and dismissed them as trivia too. It's all smoke and mirrors, nobody that would profit from the outcome can be believed.

This isn't the dawn of the age of alternative facts. It's more like the early afternoon.

In editing the piece for air, his quote was shortened and as a result his opinions mischaracterized.

Do non-citizens vote in U.S. elections?

Highlights
• First use of representative sample to measure non-citizen voting in USA.
• Some non-citizens cast votes in U.S. elections despite legal bans.
• Non-citizens favor Democratic candidates over Republican candidates.
• Non-citizen voting likely changed 2008 outcomes including Electoral College votes and the composition of Congress.
• Voter photo-identification rules have limited effect on non-citizen participation.

Abstract
In spite of substantial public controversy, very little reliable data exists concerning the frequency with which non-citizen immigrants participate in United States elections. Although such participation is a violation of election laws in most parts of the United States, enforcement depends principally on disclosure of citizenship status at the time of voter registration. This study examines participation rates by non-citizens using a nationally representative sample that includes non-citizen immigrants. We find that some non-citizens participate in U.S. elections, and that this participation has been large enough to change meaningful election outcomes including Electoral College votes, and Congressional elections. Non-citizen votes likely gave Senate Democrats the pivotal 60th vote needed to overcome filibusters in order to pass health care reform and other Obama administration priorities in the 111th Congress.

There's a vast, vast difference between unintentional bias and outright lying. Mainstream news sources may be guilty of the former, but not the latter.

when it's shown that the story is nonsense we instantly get a barrage of "well yes, but it's not important that this was a total lie, because it highlight the larger issue of blah blah blah".

The Doomsday Clock Is Reset: Closest To Midnight Since The 1950s

The minute hand on the Doomsday Clock ticked closer to midnight Thursday, as the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists said it's seeing an increase in dangers to humanity, from climate change to nuclear warfare. The group took the "unprecedented" step of moving the clock 30 seconds closer to midnight, to leave it at 2 1/2 minutes away.

The State Department’s entire senior administrative team just resigned

The entire senior level of management officials resigned Wednesday, part of an ongoing mass exodus of senior foreign service officers who don’t want to stick around for the Trump era.

...
Then suddenly on Wednesday afternoon, Kennedy and three of his top officials resigned unexpectedly, four State Department officials confirmed.

Trump administration asks top State Department officials to leave

Two senior administration officials said Thursday that the Trump administration told four top State Department management officials that their services were no longer needed as part of an effort to "clean house" at Foggy Bottom.

Patrick Kennedy, who served for nine years as the undersecretary for management, Assistant Secretaries for Administration and Consular Affairs Michele Bond and Joyce Anne Barr, and Ambassador Gentry Smith, director of the Office for Foreign Missions, were sent letters by the White House that their service was no longer required, the sources told CNN.

All four, career officers serving in positions appointed by the President, submitted letters of resignation per tradition at the beginning of a new administration.

The letters from the White House said that their resignations were accepted and they were thanked for their service.

Next one:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/jos ... -resigned/

vs

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/26/politics/ ... index.html

One of these is not like the other... pick the fake news and win a ... well, you're not going to win. Nobody is.

One of those is a news article (CNN), one's an opinion piece (WaPo).